Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Castlerigg, St John's Castlerigg etc

Castlerigg, St John's Castlerigg etc

Castlerigg

civil parish:-

St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY28242263 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY2822

10Km square:-

NY22

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 7)
placename:- Castlerigg

source data:-

Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-

possibly old map:- Berry 1679
placename:- Cust

source data:-

Road map, diagram, The Grand Roads of England, engraved by John Rich, made and published by William Berry, at the Sign of the Globe, London, 1679.
"Cust"

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Castle Rigg

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

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"Castle Rigg"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old map:- West 1784 map
placename:- Castlerigg

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.

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item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:- Castrigg
item:- placename, Castlerigg; castle

source data:-

Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.

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Page 105:- "..."
"We will now ascend to the top of Castrigg ; some of our modern writers say that it took its name from a castle of the Radcliffs, or Derwentwaters, which stood upon it; and have gone so far as to tell you, that they built a house upon the Island called Lord's with the stones of it; none of them, however, tell whereabouts this castle stood, or find any the least vestiges of one: Besides, they might get stones at one twentieth part of the distance, and as there are no stones that can be wrought with chissels got in this part of the country, it would be no advantage at all that they had been made use of before."
"..."

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Page 107:- "Mr West, in his guide to the Lakes, says, that there has been a Roman station here. That they might have one near this Druidical temple I will not deny, but that they ever had one upon Castrigg, is, I think, very improbable. This idea has taken its rise from the name, which Mr West supposes to be a corruption of Castle-Rigg: on the contrary, I take Castrigg to be the original and proper name; it is so spelled in the manor-books, and seems, like many other names in this country, to be a compound of various languages, viz. Latin and English. It seems not improbable that this hill was, for a long time after the Romans left Britain, called simply Castra, or the camp, and that the addition of Rigg, which signifies a ridge or hill, was added to it at a very late period. That any encampment which was here was Roman, is pretty evident: The Romans, out of hatred to the persons and religious tenets of the Druids, always built their forts near some of their places of resort: They thus prevented the Britons from their usual visits to these fanes, and the Druids from encouraging their countrymen by their divination."
"..."

evidence:-

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ambleside to Keswick)
placename:- Castlerigg

source data:-

Map, A Map of the Roads Lakes etc between Keswick and Ambleside, scale about 2.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.

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"Castlerigg"
item:- private collection : 10.9
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old print:- Green 1815
placename:- Castlerigg
item:- cattle

source data:-

Print, coloured aquatint, Derwent Water from Castlerigg, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1815.

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Plate 36 in Lake Scenery.
printed at upper right:- "36"
printed at bottom:- "DERWENT WATER from CASTLERIGG. / Published at Ambleside, June 1, 1815, by Wm. Green."
item:- Armitt Library : A6646.33
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- Castlerigg

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.

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item:- JandMN : 48.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
item:- viewpoint

source data:-

Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.

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Page 111:- "...The Keswick road inclines to the left, and surmounting the cultivated ridge called Castlerigg, there is a full view of Derwent Lake, with part of that of Bassenthwaite, the town and vale of Keswick, with its surrounding mountains. ..."

evidence:-

perhaps old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Castle Hill
placename:- Castle Rigg

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.

evidence:-

perhaps old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Castle Hill
placename:- Castle Rigg

source data:-

notes:-

There is a supposed site of a 'castle', or at least a manor house, somewhere here.

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6

personal

person:-

: Bankes, John, Sir

place:-

birthplace

places:-

NY28202295 Castlerigg Brow (Keswick)

NY28242245 Castlerigg Farm (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY28212253 Castlerigg Hall Farm (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn) L

NY2822 Derwentwater Castle (Keswick) once?

NY28312295 Moor (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY28402213 Rakefoot (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY27822323 Tollbar Cottage (Keswick)

NY27892309 milestone, St John's Castlerigg etc (7) (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

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